Michigan Briefs

April 21, 2006|STAFF REPORTS

NILESSpring Plant Sale scheduled for May 13 The Spring Plant Sale at Niles Riverfront Park is set for 8:30 a.m. to noon May 13 at the Niles Riverfront Park in downtown Niles. The event is sponsored by The Four Flags Garden Club in conjunction with the Optimist Club's Youth Spring Festival. EDWARDSBURGQuilting Class set for Thursday Would you like to learn a different quilting technique? How about crayon coloring on quilts? Robin English from Robin's Nest quilting store in Edwardsburg will be the instructor for a class at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Edwardsburg Branch of the Cass District Library, 26745 Church St., Edwardsburg. Stop by or call any Cass District Library location to sign up for the workshop. For more information, call branch manager Scott Sandberg at (269) 663-5875 or Shirley Hartley at (269) 445-3400. BERRIEN SPRINGSSpring concert on tap at Andrews Saturday The Andrews University Wind Symphony, under the direction of Alan Mitchell, will present its annual Spring Concert in the Howard Performing Arts Center at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The concert is free. For more information, call the Howard Center box office at (269) 471-3560 or (888) 467-6442. The Howard Performing Arts Center is a 850-seat concert hall on the campus of Andrews University. SOUTH BENDND prof to lecture about Jim Crow laws Richard Pierce, Ph.D., chair of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will present the talk, "Teaching Jim Crow," at 6:30 p.m. April 27 at the Northern Indiana Center for History. The program is free with the purchase of museum admission, which is $8 for adults, $6.50 for seniors 60 and older, $5 for youth 6-17 or in college, and free for members. Pierce will discuss the research for his up-and-coming book tentatively titled, "Teaching Jim Crow," and provide an in-depth look at the processes by which African American families and institutions taught Jim Crow to children in the United States during the time period 1895-1965. Pierce specializes in African American, Urban and Civil Rights history. For information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit www.centerforhistory.org SOUTH BENDSessions on reading clinic are scheduled An informational session on a summer clinic on Multisensory Reading Strategies will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 1 at Stanley Clark School. Multisensory Reading Strategies (MRS) teaches reading and spelling, specializing in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency. Clinic hours are from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and instructional dates are June 19-29 and July 10-27. The clinic will be at Stanley Clark School, 3123 Miami St., South Bend. Enrollment is limited, and parents are welcome to attend an informational session. Tuition assistance is available for those with demonstrated financial need. For more information on the MRS program, contact Kim Haughee at (574) 274-4815, or by e-mail at khaughee@sbcglobal.net.